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A lot of us who write, including myself, would like to earn extra money writing for others in legitimate activities such as editing, proofreading, writing projects and similar things. Just for grins, I took a look on Craig’s List to find out what writing services others were offering. Some of the things I saw turned Read more
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I happened to pick this book up in a used bookstore because the combination of young adult and WW2 historical literature interests me. It’s Brian Crawford’s story of Julia, a teenage farm girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland during the second world war. In addition to the struggles of living under the Nazis, she must keep the farm functioning despite her stepfather’s alcoholism. She thinks her life is complicated enough, until Read more
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Jennifer Nielsen may be known for her fantasy novels like The Once and Future Prince, but she has a number of young adult historical novels, and Resistance is one of them. The heroine of the story is Chaya Lindner, a Jewish teenage resistance fighter in the midst of the Holocaust. Because she can pass as Read more
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A Novel You Simply Must Read! A fellow writer acquaintance recommended I read Between Shades of Gray and it’s one of the best pieces of advice I have ever followed. When Ruta Sepetys published Between Shades of Gray she immediately had a problem in that the title was similar to that horribly written novel Read more
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People have said you can teach any subject at any age. Jill Paton Walsh’s The Green Book is proof of that. The plot centers around a group of families who leave earth to make a new home on an alien planet. The story tells virtually nothing about their life before leaving Earth or about the Read more
Mild-mannered working stiff by day, author by night
Author With A Day Job 